Improvement in milk-carriers



A. W. GUFFRD.

Milk. Carriers.

N0.l55,363. Patented Sept. 29,1874.

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y UNITED -STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED W. CLIFFORD, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT I-N MILK-CARRIERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 155,363, datedSeptember 29,1874 application filed March 17, 1874.

To all whom lit may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED W. CLIF- FORD, of Cleveland, county ofCuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented an Improved Can for CarryingMilk, delicate fruits, and such other articles as are injured in thecarrying by heat and violent commotion, of which the following is aspeciiication:

My invention relates to an improved can for carrying milk and fruit; andit consists in the arrangement and combination of devices, which will bemore fully described hereafter. y

Figure l is a top view lor plan of the frame E, can A, and oscillatingring C, with its journals D, and springs H, and the centers I on whichthe can swings Within the ring C. Fig. 2 is a vertical half-section ofthe entire carrier, including the refrigerating cover B, and its coverN.

The can proper, in Fig. 2, reaches from the concave bottom to the lineJ. The ring K at the bottom makes a footing for the can when notsuspended. The cover L is made convex on the top, and the sides reachdown to the dotted line M. On the top of the cover L there is a cylinderslightly less in diameter, an d, say, one-quarter the height ot'the can.This cylinder B is notched all round its lower edge, and then solderedto the top of L, and has a cover reaching down to the dotted line O.This cylinder is to be filled with ice, which, as it melts, will run outthrough the notches and over the cover and the can, and by its rapidevaporation carry the heat away from the can very fast.

Now, to carry this refrigerating-can steadily, I make journals D toextend from the ring C, through the standards E, about two inches 011each end, and with a bur, nut, or pin I secure a coiled spring, H, oneach projecting end impinging against the standard E, to relieve the canfrom sudden side lurches of the carriage.

The journals I are fixed inwardly on the ring C, at right angles to D,and half-boxes fixed to the sides of the can fit down over I, andoscillate thereon. I should be placed part of a sphere whose centerismidway be-..

tween the points I I, the bottom will glide over or round the milk,without causing any y commotion, as it swings to the varyinginclinations of the carriage.

I use the springs P under the frame when a common wagon is used, butwith a spring'- Wagon strong stakes, or the bows ofthe cover,

may be used instead ofthe standards E; and

two or more rings may be in line with a common center. (See Fig. 3.) Orwhere many small cans or boxes are to be carried, then an oblong framemay be used, (see Fig. 4,) and on board of cars these frames may beranged one above another, reaching from side to side of the car, and inthat case I would have the springs H between the frames and sides of thecars or stanchions, and also springs between the can and frame, to easethe jerk of the car in starting, and then I would have the journals Xedto the sides ot' the can, and restV in boxes on the top of the frame.(See Fig. 4.)

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

l. A can, A, for carrying fruit or milk, provided with arefrigerating-cover, B L, having holes in its bottom, so that the Waterfrom the melted ice will run down over the sides ot' the can,substantially as set forth.

2. A can for carrying fruit or milk, which is hung in the ring C bymeans of the journals I, the ring being provided with the journals D andsprings H, substantially as shown and described.

ALFRED W. CLIFFORD.

Witnesses R. C. FREY, THos. MINNrss.

